Eamonn MacDonagh summarizes it perfectly:
1 A few tweets about the Argentines wanted for the FIFA scandal: Alejandro Burzaco, Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano. #FIFAarrests
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
Burzaco is the boss of the sports marketing and media firm Torneos y Competencias, a big player.
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
3. Jinkis and his son are the President and Vice president of Full Play, which owns the TV rights for a number of national teams
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
4. in the Americas. The extradition request for the 3 has already been sent from the American Embassy to Foreign Ministry and from there
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
5. to the relevant legal authorities. That’s where the hurry is likely to end though. The wanted men will likely use all their resources
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
6. to fight the extradition request. at every level of the Argentine legal system and there are plenty.
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
7. Also, Burzaco is believed to be in the UK at the moment. It’ll be interesting to see if he gets back here without being arrested.
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
8. It will take a long time before the accused exhaust their options before the courts here and they will have an important ally in their
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
9. struggle in the person of Attorney General Gils Carbó, ultra loyal to the President and the main artificer
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
10 of the blocking of any investigation into the accusations of complicity with Iran by the President and others
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
11. in covering up the AMIA massacre made by the late and probably murdered Prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
12.
It’s likely that the accused will still be fighting in the courts after the President leaves power in December
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
13. but not to worry, Gils Carbó, a firm believer in President’s worldview of machinations by global powers
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
14. conspiring against heroic Argentina, enjoys tenure in office and that can only be removed by a congressional vote
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
15 that no future president is likely to have the numbers for. So the final call on extradition will probably fall to the next President
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
16. .Most likely that will either be Scioli or Randazzo, both of whom will be spancelled, at least in their initial period of office
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
17 by the hordes of ultra-kirchneristas that the current administration has packed the state apparatus with
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
18. Even if by some miracle opposition candidate Macri wins power, he will still be limited by this same factor
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
19 and the lack of a congressional majority. And Macri would have an extra problem too in that Burzaco’s brother Eugenio was
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
20. and possibly still is up to his eyes in the security arm of Macri’s PRO party. As ever in Argentina: No one is innocent
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
21. One final point, if we are lucky we may be treated to another rant from the President about all this on national television.
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
22. She shares a similar outlook on the evil machinations of some Jewish people as Jack Warner, one of the FIFA accused already under arrest
— Eamonn MacDonagh (@EamonnMacDonagh) May 28, 2015
